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Jeremiah / The Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations
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The Cup of God's Wrath on the Nations

Jeremiah 25:15-38

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Chapter 25
15 For thus said the LORD God of Israel to me: "Take the cup of this wine of wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to which I am sending you drink it." 16 And they will drink and they will stagger and they will rave because of the sword that I am sending among them. 17 And I took the cup from the hand of the LORD, and I made all the nations drink from it to whom the LORD had sent me. 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah and its kings, Seraiah, to give them to ruin, to desolation, to hissing, and to curse as this day. 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his chiefs, and all his people. 20 all the Arabs, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of Philistia, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod. 21 Edom and Moab and the sons of Ammon. 22 the kings of Tyre, the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the island beyond the sea, 23 Dedan, Teman, Buz, and all who cut the corners of their hair. 24 and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the Arabs who dwell in the wilderness 25 and all the kings of Zimri and all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Madai. 26 and all the kings of the north, the close ones and the far ones, man to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the earth that are on the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach will drink after them. 27 And you shall say to them, "Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink and become drunk and vomit and fall and do not rise from before the sword that I am sending among you.'" 28 And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of cosmic hosts: Drink—you shall drink! 29 For look, in the city over which my name is called, I am beginning to bring evil, and you—being acquitted, will you be acquitted? You will not be acquitted. For I am calling the sword upon all the inhabitants of the land—oracle of the LORD of heavenly hosts. 30 And you, prophesy all these words to them and say to them, “The LORD will roar from on high, and from his dwelling place he will give his voice. He roars; he roars over his pasture like those who tread grapes. He will bring retribution on all the inhabitants of the earth.” 31 A roar has come to the end of the earth, for the LORD has a legal dispute with the nations. He enters into judgment for all flesh; he has given the wicked to the sword, says the LORD. 32 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, "Behold, evil has gone out from nation to nation, and a great storm wind will awaken from the remotest parts of earth." 33 And the slain of the LORD will be on that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They will not be lamented, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground. 34 Howl, O shepherds, and cry out, and wallow, majestic ones of the flock, for your days have come for slaughtering, and your dispersions have scattered, and you have fallen like a vessel of delight. 35 And escape will be lost from the shepherds, and survival from the majestic ones of the flock. 36 A sound of the cry of the shepherds and the howling of the majestic ones of the flock, for the LORD has devastated their pasture. 37 And the pastures of peace are silenced because of the presence of the fierceness of the anger of the LORD. 38 He has abandoned his lair like a lion, for their land has become a desolation because of the heat of the north and because of the heat of his nostrils.